Chouquette

Home-made chouquettes.

A chouquette is a viennoiserie consisting of a small portion of choux pastry sprinkled with pearl sugar. It is sometimes filled with custard or mousse. Sometimes a chouquette can be dipped in chocolate or covered in chocolate chips. Chouquettes are made with a semi difficult recipe because in order to get it right you have to boil water and mix ingredients in once boiled and has to be stirred a certain way. (http://www.cuisine-french.com/cgi/mdc/l/en/recettes/chouquettes_ill.html) Chouquettes do not come from any particular region of France because its ingredients are easy to come by. (see recipe)

etymology: "chou" cabbagge, "quette"^{[dubious – discuss]} making the word smaller, thus meaning a small cabage